observe, my friends, with what little wisdom the world is governed. >> osgood: commentary from ben stein. now to bob scheiffer in washington for a look at what's ahead on face the nation. good morning, bob >> schieffer: good morning, charles. well, we've got erskine bowls and alan simpson who headed up that deficit reduction commission and had so many good ideas that went nowhere. we'll see what they think about the fiscal cliff this morning. >> osgood: thank you, bob scheiffer. we'll be watching. and next week here on sunday morning ♪ >> osgood: amuseical flight are led zeppelin. >> osgood: we leave you this sunday morning where the bison roam at slew creek in yellowstone national park. >> osgood: i'm charles osgood. please join us again next sunday morning. until then, i'll see you on the radio. captioning made possible by johnson & johnson, where quality products for the american family have been a tradition for generations captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org ,, ,,,, ,, . >>> as things stand this morning, we're less than three weeks away from falling over the so-